REST Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 64 71
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing REST 57 22 29
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.49% 2.38% 1.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.21% 9.17% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 18 26
10th Percentile £353 £389 £405
25th Percentile £463 £400 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £600 £554 £598
North West median daily rate £478 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +3.38% -11.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.65 - -
25th Percentile £61.38 - -
Median hourly rate £65.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.38 - -
90th Percentile £69.35 - -
North West median hourly rate £65.50 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 401 240 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 24.54% 25.95% 24.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 189 298
10th Percentile £355 £397 £366
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £551 £600
90th Percentile £626 £638 £808
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 1 7
10th Percentile £52.50 - £67.00
25th Percentile £53.44 £76.25 £67.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £82.50 £71.87
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +14.79% +79.68%
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.75 £76.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £81.60
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £47.31
% change year-on-year +3.32% +43.22% +16.54%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

REST job vacancy trend in Manchester

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Manchester

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton - 2 £550 - 1
Wigan - 1 £450 -
REST
North West

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 20 (35.09%) Azure
2 17 (29.82%) AWS
3 10 (17.54%) GitHub
3 10 (17.54%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (17.54%) Serverless
4 7 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (8.77%) GCP
5 5 (8.77%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.02%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.26%) Azure AI
7 3 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (5.26%) Datadog
7 3 (5.26%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.26%) Redis
4 2 (3.51%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.75%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.75%) MySQL
5 1 (1.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) GitLab
2 11 (19.30%) Git
3 8 (14.04%) Cypress.io
3 8 (14.04%) Mocha
4 7 (12.28%) CircleCI
5 6 (10.53%) JUnit
6 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.51%) fastlane
7 2 (3.51%) Gradle
7 2 (3.51%) IntelliJ
7 2 (3.51%) XCTest
8 1 (1.75%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.75%) Postman
8 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.75%) Selenium
8 1 (1.75%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.75%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.75%) Vite
8 1 (1.75%) Xcode
General
1 14 (24.56%) Public Sector
2 10 (17.54%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Games
4 5 (8.77%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Automotive
7 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (49.12%) Developer
2 9 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (14.04%) Lead
4 7 (12.28%) Java Developer
4 7 (12.28%) Lead Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Senior
5 6 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (7.02%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) .NET Developer
8 3 (5.26%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Lead Software Developer
8 3 (5.26%) SailPoint Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (35.09%) Node.js
1 20 (35.09%) Spring
2 18 (31.58%) React
2 18 (31.58%) Spring Boot
3 12 (21.05%) GraphQL
4 9 (15.79%) Jest
4 9 (15.79%) Playwright
5 7 (12.28%) .NET
5 7 (12.28%) AngularJS
5 7 (12.28%) JSON
6 5 (8.77%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (8.77%) RESTful
7 4 (7.02%) Next.js
7 4 (7.02%) OAuth
7 4 (7.02%) Vue
7 4 (7.02%) Web Services
8 3 (5.26%) .NET Core
8 3 (5.26%) OAuth2
8 3 (5.26%) Redux
8 3 (5.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.02%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.75%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.75%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 24 (42.11%) DevOps
3 23 (40.35%) Agile
4 22 (38.60%) Microservices
5 15 (26.32%) Test Automation
6 14 (24.56%) User Experience
7 13 (22.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (21.05%) Observability
8 12 (21.05%) Software Engineering
9 9 (15.79%) API Development
9 9 (15.79%) TDD
10 8 (14.04%) Containerisation
10 8 (14.04%) Secure Coding
11 7 (12.28%) Code Quality
11 7 (12.28%) User Research
12 6 (10.53%) Data Integration
12 6 (10.53%) Data Modelling
12 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (10.53%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 26 (45.61%) Java
2 18 (31.58%) TypeScript
3 11 (19.30%) C#
4 9 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.28%) Python
6 5 (8.77%) SQL
7 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.26%) Bash
9 2 (3.51%) Go
9 2 (3.51%) Groovy
9 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.51%) Objective-C
9 2 (3.51%) Swift
10 1 (1.75%) BeanShell
10 1 (1.75%) Bicep
10 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.75%) Degree
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.56%) Accessibility
2 7 (12.28%) WCAG
3 3 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 13 (22.81%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (29.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.79%) Terraform
3 8 (14.04%) Grafana
4 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.75%) Istio
5 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.26%) Foundry
2 3 (5.26%) Ping Identity
3 2 (3.51%) Braze
3 2 (3.51%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.75%) Adobe
4 1 (1.75%) Dell
4 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.75%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.75%) Reuters
4 1 (1.75%) SnapLogic